关于 WUMA
ABOUT WUMA
Marina Brant | 建筑师
Marina Brant is a Brazilian architect and urban planner based in Lisbon, Portugal. Her practice focuses on computational design, digital fabrication, and Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA), exploring the intersection of advanced technologies and contemporary architectural production.
She graduated from Escola da Cidade School of Architecture in São Paulo and later earned a postgraduate certification in Parametric Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona. While living in Mexico, she worked for a leading digital construction company, gaining hands-on experience in advanced manufacturing and digital fabrication.
Marina currently collaborates with a UK-based timber construction company on projects that combine digital workflows with traditional craftsmanship. Alongside her professional practice, she is a visiting researcher at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), where she also teaches computational design and digital fabrication through courses and workshops.
Since 2022, Marina has collaborated closely with Yizao Wu on a series of interdisciplinary design projects. Their work has been recognized by the Shanghai Design 100+ Awards and exhibited at the China Innovation Pavilion during Paris Design Week 2025.
Yizao WU | 设计师
Yizao Wu is an independent designer from Quanzhou, China, and a Ph.D. candidate at the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University. He received his Master's degree from Tongji University and is the founder of YIZIO STUDIO.
Working across disciplines, his practice spans exhibition curation, installation design, sustainable design, furniture, digital fashion, and contemporary jewelry. Through computational design and material exploration, he investigates new relationships between culture, technology, and everyday life.
In 2023, Wu was selected among the Top 10 of the Shanghai Design 100+ Awards and received recognition from both the British Fashion Film Festival and the London Fashion Film Festival. His work has been exhibited internationally at CMF Trends LAB (2026), the China Innovation Pavilion at Paris Design Week (2025), Triennale Milano, Dutch Design Week, Brazil Design Week, Design Shenzhen, the World Design Cities Conference, and numerous exhibitions dedicated to digital art, sustainability, and contemporary jewelry.
His work has been featured by publications including VOGUE and Chinese Handicraft, and he has collaborated with clients such as SHUION WorkX, Xintiandi, The Hub, Sustainable Solutions, LVMH Dior, Elements Hong Kong, Blackstone, Hongqiao International Airport, and the China International Import Expo.
Marina Brant | 建筑师
玛丽娜·布朗特（Marina Brant）是一位常驻里斯本的巴西建筑师与城市规划师，专注于计算设计、数字建造及面向制造与装配的设计（DfMA）。
她毕业于圣保罗的Escola da Cidade建筑学院，后于巴塞罗那加泰罗尼亚理工大学取得参数化建筑专业认证。曾旅居墨西哥期间，她任职于一家大型数字建造企业，积累了先进制造技术的实战经验，其研究聚焦计算设计与创新建造方法的交叉领域。
目前，她与英国一家木结构建筑公司合作，参与融合数字化与传统工艺的项目。除专业实践外，她兼任坎皮纳斯州立大学（UNICAMP）客座研究员，并通过课程与工作坊教授计算设计与数字建造技术，持续推动行业知识传播。2022年与颐藻合作至今，联合设计作品共同获得上海设计100+，入选2025巴黎设计周中国创新馆。
Yizao WU | 设计师
同济大学设计创意学院博士候选人
吴颐藻（Yizao Wu）是一位生长在泉州的独立设计师，毕业于同济大学设计创意学院并获硕士学位。他是YIZIO STUDIO的创始人，拥有跨领域的多元实践，涵盖展览策划、装置设计、可持续设计、家具、数字时尚及当代首饰等领域。
2023年，他入选2023“上海设计100+”前十名，并入选英国时尚电影节与伦敦时尚电影节奖项。其设计与艺术作品曾亮相于2026CMF趋势LAB、2025巴黎设计周中国创新馆、米兰三年展、2024荷兰设计周“Flying to the Moon”、巴西设计周、2023“10×10可持续创新”展、设计深圳、EKA创变艺术节、虹桥天地“循循有新”可持续艺术装置展、世界设计之都大会、MULT全球青年数字艺术展、厦门秋地艺术中心AI超级明星艺术展、以及“DESIGNING IN JEWELLERY”当代首饰艺术展等重要活动。
他的作品曾被《VOGUE》《中华手工》等媒体报道，并为瑞安办公SHUION WorkX、新天地、The Hub、Sustainable Solutions、LVMH DIOR、香港圆方、黑石集团、虹桥机场及2019中国国际进口博览会等客户提供设计服务。
品牌宣言
MANIFESTO
WUMA 相信，设计是人类最早也是最普世的语言。
品牌由中国设计师 Wu Yizao 与巴西建筑师 Marina Brant 于 2026 年共同创立，诞生于不同文化、学科、技术与材料的交汇之处。我们游走于珠宝、家具、器物、灯具、雕塑与空间之间，不受类别所限，而是在持续探索中不断生长。
WUMA 不仅代表两位创作者名字的结合，更象征一种没有边界的成长方式——一种始终保持好奇、不断演化、持续合作的创作实践。
每一个系列，都始于一次意料之外的相遇：一种童年的味道、一段跨越地域的旋律、一块石材的纹理、一种自然生成的几何，或是一段关于触觉与记忆的体验。这些看不见的感知，被转译为参数、算法、草图与模型，并最终通过数字制造与精湛工艺成为真实存在的作品。
在 WUMA，我们从不将科技与传统视为对立。算法成为表达情感的工具，参数化设计揭示自然的秩序，3D 打印与手工制作彼此补充，大理石承载声音，而珠宝成为一种日常仪式。
我们不追求固定的风格，也不受限于某一种材料。真正贯穿所有作品的，是一种思考方式——在理性与感性、精密与直觉、永恒与变化、功能与诗意之间寻找平衡。
对我们而言，设计不仅创造物件，更是一种翻译世界的方式。它将文化转化为形态，将感官凝练为材料，将思想塑造成能够跨越语言与地域、被每个人理解的体验。
因为语言属于不同的民族，而设计属于所有人。
WUMA is an interdisciplinary design house founded on the belief that design is humanity's first universal language.
Established in 2026 by Chinese designer Wu Yizao and Brazilian architect Marina Brant, WUMA exists where cultures, disciplines, technologies and materials intersect. Our work moves freely between jewellery, furniture, objects, lighting, sculpture and spatial experiences, refusing traditional boundaries in favour of continuous exploration.
Our name represents more than the union of two creators. It embodies growth without limits: a practice that evolves through curiosity, experimentation and collaboration.
Every collection begins with an unexpected conversation. A taste remembered from childhood. A rhythm carried across continents. The geometry hidden inside nature. The texture of stone. The movement of sound. These intangible experiences become parameters, algorithms, sketches and prototypes before taking physical form through digital fabrication and exceptional craftsmanship.
We do not separate technology from tradition. Algorithms become tools for emotion. Parametric systems reveal organic beauty. 3D printing meets hand-finishing. Marble carries invisible frequencies. Jewelry becomes ritual. Objects become experiences.
Our work is not defined by a single material or aesthetic, but by a way of thinking. Every piece explores the relationship between precision and intuition, permanence and transformation, utility and poetry.
For us, design is more than the creation of objects. It is a way of translating cultures into forms, senses into matter, and ideas into experiences that can be understood beyond language.
Because while words belong to nations, design belongs to everyone.
OUR CORE THESIS
DESIGN IS A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
设计，是共通的语言。
关于标识
LOGO
WUMA 的标识由六个三角形组成，构成三个沙漏形态，其线条同时呼应 “WUMA” 的字母结构。沙漏承载时间，三角形象征无限与稳定。六个三角形彼此嵌合、循环相生，形成一种既开放又闭合的视觉秩序，正如 WUMA 的创作理念 - 在有限的物质世界中，探索无限的精神延展。
WUMA 专注于参数驱动的 3D 打印器物创作。我们将算法视为一种「生长法则」，而非冰冷的工具。每一件作品都不是预先设定的静态造型，而是在数字土壤中自然生长、凝固成形的瞬间。理性与感性、数字与手工、精确与偶然 - 在这些看似对立的边界之间，WUMA 始终寻找一种有机的平衡。
The WUMA logo is composed of six triangles that form three hourglass shapes, while its lines simultaneously echo the letters of “WUMA.” The hourglass symbolizes time, while the triangle represents both infinity and stability. Interlocking in a continuous cycle, the six triangles create a visual structure that is both open and complete - reflecting WUMA's creative philosophy: to pursue infinite spiritual expansion within the finite material world.
WUMA creates parameter-driven 3D-printed objects. We see algorithms as a rule of growth rather than a cold tool. Each piece is not a predetermined static form, but a moment of growth - naturally generated and frozen within a digital landscape. Between rationality and intuition, digital fabrication and craftsmanship, precision and chance, WUMA seeks an organic balance.
